Antonyms for half-lights


Grammar : Noun
Spell : haf-lahyt, hahf-
Phonetic Transcription : ˈhæfˌlaɪt, ˈhɑf-


Definition of half-lights

  • As in twilight : noun onset of darkness at end of day
  • As in first light : noun daybreak
Example sentences :
  • She was more nervous than she appeared, and she was glad of the half-lights.
  • Extract from : « The Silver Poppy » by Arthur Stringer
  • Thanks to Margaret's hints and half-lights, I did well enough.
  • Extract from : « The Yeoman Adventurer » by George W. Gough
  • The half-lights of Symbolist mysticism are remote from his hard glare.
  • Extract from : « Recent Developments in European Thought » by Various
  • But as I grow old, the half-lights of evening are far more to me.
  • Extract from : « Complete Prose Works » by Walt Whitman
  • It is full also of the tantalizing suggestiveness, the half-lights and shades, of April and May.
  • Extract from : « Birds and Poets » by John Burroughs
  • I would live in the little house with a friend of my heart—a friend in the shadows and half-lights and brilliances.
  • Extract from : « My Friend Annabel Lee » by Mary MacLane
  • The blinds were drawn, but even in the half-lights its proportions appeared shrunken, its furnishings shabby and poor.
  • Extract from : « Lady Cassandra » by Mrs George de Horne Vaizey
  • He looked about him with quick, practised eye for a camping-place before the sun sank below the forests and the half-lights came.
  • Extract from : « The Wolves of God » by Algernon Blackwood
  • The man of half-lights who acts with a promptitude often disastrous, is indeed narrow, but I deny that he is strong.
  • Extract from : « Platform Monologues » by T. G. Tucker
  • In the half-lights of the crowded, covered bazaar his was a setting in which Dulac would have revelled.
  • Extract from : « War in the Garden of Eden » by Kermit Roosevelt

Synonyms for half-lights

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